“Identity” Featured Artist Sarita Smith
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome back poet Sarita Smith from Georgia, USA, who debuted with us in our “Belonging” issue. Her poem “Split” explores the intersectionality of blackness and womanhood …
“Identity” Featured Artist Akua Lezli Hope
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome the winner of our “Identity” poetry contest, Akua Lezli Hope from New York with two vivid poems exploring femininity and blackness. “Black Orpheus V,” our …
“Belonging” Featured Artist Sarita Smith
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome poet Sarita Smith from Georgia, USA with two poems exposing the abuse women, particularly black women, experience at the hands of the patriarchy–both in the …
“The Alien of Old Springville Road and Medina Drive” by Lori Lasseter Hamilton wins our “Intersections” Poetry Contest
Synkroniciti is excited to reveal the winner of our “Intersections” poetry contest, Lori Lasseter Hamilton’s “The Alien of Old Springville Road and Medina Drive.” This powerful poem explores the intersectionality …
Quote for Today: Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
For those who haven’t yet experienced climate collapse in our own bodies, a history not yet written into us, the feeling it arrives in the shape of shadows, an atmospheric …
Quote for Today: Ava DuVernay
I talk a lot about my challenge with permission and the culture of permission in which we live. Women, people of color, and anyone outside of the dominant gaze …
Quote for Today: Reni Eddo-Lodge
If you are disgusted by what you see, and if you feel the fire coursing through your veins, then it’s up to you. You don’t have to be the …
Quote for Today: Alicia Garza
Diversity is what happens when you have representation of various groups in one place. Representation is what happens when groups that haven’t previously been included, are included. Intersectionality is what …
Featured Artist: Jagoda Zwiernik
Today we welcome the last of Synkroniciti’s “Empowered” artists, Jagoda Zwiernik, a visual artist from Poland residing in Scotland. Jagoda’s work is profound for its intersectionality, vulnerability and body positivity. …
Quote for Today: Audre Lorde
I have seen situations where white women hear a racist remark, resent what has been said, become filled with fury, and remain silent because they are afraid. That unexpressed …